Hi to all,
I am trying to understand how designers, using biological knowledge, could
break down traditional boundaries that limits their creative output to
the sphere of the not living structures, objects, etc. and expand
their creative production to the realm of organic living structures.
With this in mind, I am looking for existing (or possible) models of
collaboration and interaction between Designers and Biologists, that
permit designers to access knowledge on natural/biological processes
and systems that underpin their design outputs in one hand, and that
allow the integration of biology scientific research and design
creative thinking in the other.
I also want to explore some of the ethical, cultural, philosophical
and ideological issues that may arise from designers creating/
manipulating/transforming living structures with a functional purpose.
I have found an extensive bibliography that talks about
Art and Biology interaction and about a number of research projects
that team up Artists and scientists, but little about product design
and Biology. Does anyone out there have any good reading
recommendation, or reliable source on this subject?
Thanks,
Carlos Peralta
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